Post by Loki on Feb 7, 2009 12:00:31 GMT -6
Ronin
Maya Lopez
Fighting Incredible
Agility Remarkable
Strength Good
Endurance Remarkable
Reason Good
Intuition Remarkable
Psyche Excellent
Health 110
Karma 50
Resources Excellent
Popularity 0
Powers
Photographic Reflexes: Maya is capable of assimilating an individual’s fighting style by sight. She can copy all moves and fighting or agility based talents from people she has observed for more than 2 rounds. She must make a Monstrous power FEAT to do so. In combat, she can automatically block one attack by a studied character on a successful power FEAT, she can block 2 attack if she succeeds on a Yellow power FEAT. In addition, studied characters are at -2CS against her. If a character drastically changes her fighting style into an erratic, chaotic style (fight at -3CS with no talent bonus) then Maya cannot use this power and is at -2CS
Martial Arts Supremacy: Incredible
Stealth: Remarkable
Equipment
Costume: Ronin wears a uniform offering Excellent protection from physical and energy damage. The suit is also light-adaptive providing Remarkable Blending abilities and +1CS on Stealth
Nunchakus: Standard Nunchaku made from Remarkable material, they are capable of inflicting Excellent damage
Katana Sword: Made from Amazing strength steel, Ronin wields a Katana capable of inflciting Incredible edged damage.
Limitation
Maya is deaf. She is able to read lips
Talents
Weapon Specialist: Oriental Weapons, Martial Arts- All, Tumbling, Acrobatics, Languages: English, Japanese, Performer: Piano, Dancing
Contacts
New Avengers, Daredevil
History
When she was a small girl, Maya Lopez's father was killed by the Kingpin. As he died, he left a bloody handprint on Maya's face.
The last wish of Maya's father before dying was that Fisk raise the child well: a wish the Kingpin honored, caring for her as if she was his own.
Believed to be mentally-disabled, Maya was sent to an expensive school for people with learning disabilities. There, she managed to completely replicate a song on the piano. After that, she was sent to another expensive school—for prodigies. She would soon become a gifted woman.
One day, upon visiting her father's grave with Fisk, she asked how he died. Fisk told her that Daredevil had killed him.
Maya was sent by the Kingpin to Matt Murdock to prove Matt's weakness. He told her that Matt believed he was a bad person, and that she was the only way to prove him wrong. (As Maya believed him, it would not appear to be a lie when she told Matt.)
Matt Murdock and Maya soon fell in love. She later took on the guise of Echo, hunting Daredevil down. On her face she painted a white handprint, similar to how her father left his dying handprint on her when she was young. Having watched videos of Bullseye and Daredevil fighting, she proved more than a match for Daredevil. She took him down and nearly killed him, refusing only when she found out Matt and Daredevil were one and the same. Matt managed to correct the Kingpin's lies. In revenge, Maya confronted Fisk and shot him in the face, blinding him and starting the chain of events that would lead to his eventual downfall. (Kingpin would later partially recover his eyesight through reconstructive eye surgery.)
After realizing the horror of her actions and the lies she has grown up with, Maya fled the United States to do some soul-searching. When she came back, she tried reuniting with Matt Murdock, only to find out he was now with a blind woman named Milla Donovan, and that the Kingpin was still alive (despite Maya's attempts to kill him). Leaving Matt, Maya visited the Kingpin in prison, who told her that he didn't blame her for what she did, and that despite all that had happened, he still loved her like a daughter.
Unsatisfied and still needing peace, Maya turned to the Chief, her father's old friend, noted for his wisdom. The Chief sent Maya on a Vision Quest to calm her soul. On her quest, she met and befriended Wolverine who helped her recover and may be attributed to her picking up Japanese values and knowledge of the Japanese underworld. Soon enough, Echo made peace with her past and was back doing performance art.
Recently, after being unable to join the Avengers for personal reasons, Daredevil recommended Maya to Captain America to aid the Avengers in seizing the Silver Samurai in Japan. She donned a suit that conceals her identity as well as her gender and rechristened herself as Ronin. The word is Japanese for 'Masterless Samurai'.
After joining the Avengers, Maya returned to Japan to keep an eye on Elektra Natchios, a dangerous assassin rumoured to be leading the Hand, check on the Silver Samurai from time to time, and hopefully solve the conflict between The Hand and Clan Yashida. As Ronin, Maya fought Elektra and was killed, but was soon resurrected by the Hand using the same process they raised Elektra with. They took Maya captive with the intent of turning her into an assassin for The Hand. Luke Cage, Spider-Man, Wolverine, Doctor Strange, Spider-Woman, Iron Fist, and the new Ronin rescue her and escape, leaving a furious Elektra to send the Hand after them. During a brief lull in the fight with the Hand, where Luke Cage tried to negotiate with Elektra to buy time, it was revealed that the Hand had been successful in brainwashing Maya, as she subsequently stabbed Dr. Strange with a sword given to her by one of the Hand[2]. She continues to fight the New Avengers until Dr. Strange is able to release his Astral Form, with Wong's help, and frees Maya from the brainwashing. Maya then charges straight for Elektra, who is fighting Luke Cage, and brutally stabs and slices her with a sword. It is revealed afterwards that Elektra is a Skrull warrior in disguise.
Maya Lopez
Fighting Incredible
Agility Remarkable
Strength Good
Endurance Remarkable
Reason Good
Intuition Remarkable
Psyche Excellent
Health 110
Karma 50
Resources Excellent
Popularity 0
Powers
Photographic Reflexes: Maya is capable of assimilating an individual’s fighting style by sight. She can copy all moves and fighting or agility based talents from people she has observed for more than 2 rounds. She must make a Monstrous power FEAT to do so. In combat, she can automatically block one attack by a studied character on a successful power FEAT, she can block 2 attack if she succeeds on a Yellow power FEAT. In addition, studied characters are at -2CS against her. If a character drastically changes her fighting style into an erratic, chaotic style (fight at -3CS with no talent bonus) then Maya cannot use this power and is at -2CS
Martial Arts Supremacy: Incredible
Stealth: Remarkable
Equipment
Costume: Ronin wears a uniform offering Excellent protection from physical and energy damage. The suit is also light-adaptive providing Remarkable Blending abilities and +1CS on Stealth
Nunchakus: Standard Nunchaku made from Remarkable material, they are capable of inflicting Excellent damage
Katana Sword: Made from Amazing strength steel, Ronin wields a Katana capable of inflciting Incredible edged damage.
Limitation
Maya is deaf. She is able to read lips
Talents
Weapon Specialist: Oriental Weapons, Martial Arts- All, Tumbling, Acrobatics, Languages: English, Japanese, Performer: Piano, Dancing
Contacts
New Avengers, Daredevil
History
When she was a small girl, Maya Lopez's father was killed by the Kingpin. As he died, he left a bloody handprint on Maya's face.
The last wish of Maya's father before dying was that Fisk raise the child well: a wish the Kingpin honored, caring for her as if she was his own.
Believed to be mentally-disabled, Maya was sent to an expensive school for people with learning disabilities. There, she managed to completely replicate a song on the piano. After that, she was sent to another expensive school—for prodigies. She would soon become a gifted woman.
One day, upon visiting her father's grave with Fisk, she asked how he died. Fisk told her that Daredevil had killed him.
Maya was sent by the Kingpin to Matt Murdock to prove Matt's weakness. He told her that Matt believed he was a bad person, and that she was the only way to prove him wrong. (As Maya believed him, it would not appear to be a lie when she told Matt.)
Matt Murdock and Maya soon fell in love. She later took on the guise of Echo, hunting Daredevil down. On her face she painted a white handprint, similar to how her father left his dying handprint on her when she was young. Having watched videos of Bullseye and Daredevil fighting, she proved more than a match for Daredevil. She took him down and nearly killed him, refusing only when she found out Matt and Daredevil were one and the same. Matt managed to correct the Kingpin's lies. In revenge, Maya confronted Fisk and shot him in the face, blinding him and starting the chain of events that would lead to his eventual downfall. (Kingpin would later partially recover his eyesight through reconstructive eye surgery.)
After realizing the horror of her actions and the lies she has grown up with, Maya fled the United States to do some soul-searching. When she came back, she tried reuniting with Matt Murdock, only to find out he was now with a blind woman named Milla Donovan, and that the Kingpin was still alive (despite Maya's attempts to kill him). Leaving Matt, Maya visited the Kingpin in prison, who told her that he didn't blame her for what she did, and that despite all that had happened, he still loved her like a daughter.
Unsatisfied and still needing peace, Maya turned to the Chief, her father's old friend, noted for his wisdom. The Chief sent Maya on a Vision Quest to calm her soul. On her quest, she met and befriended Wolverine who helped her recover and may be attributed to her picking up Japanese values and knowledge of the Japanese underworld. Soon enough, Echo made peace with her past and was back doing performance art.
Recently, after being unable to join the Avengers for personal reasons, Daredevil recommended Maya to Captain America to aid the Avengers in seizing the Silver Samurai in Japan. She donned a suit that conceals her identity as well as her gender and rechristened herself as Ronin. The word is Japanese for 'Masterless Samurai'.
After joining the Avengers, Maya returned to Japan to keep an eye on Elektra Natchios, a dangerous assassin rumoured to be leading the Hand, check on the Silver Samurai from time to time, and hopefully solve the conflict between The Hand and Clan Yashida. As Ronin, Maya fought Elektra and was killed, but was soon resurrected by the Hand using the same process they raised Elektra with. They took Maya captive with the intent of turning her into an assassin for The Hand. Luke Cage, Spider-Man, Wolverine, Doctor Strange, Spider-Woman, Iron Fist, and the new Ronin rescue her and escape, leaving a furious Elektra to send the Hand after them. During a brief lull in the fight with the Hand, where Luke Cage tried to negotiate with Elektra to buy time, it was revealed that the Hand had been successful in brainwashing Maya, as she subsequently stabbed Dr. Strange with a sword given to her by one of the Hand[2]. She continues to fight the New Avengers until Dr. Strange is able to release his Astral Form, with Wong's help, and frees Maya from the brainwashing. Maya then charges straight for Elektra, who is fighting Luke Cage, and brutally stabs and slices her with a sword. It is revealed afterwards that Elektra is a Skrull warrior in disguise.